| Elohim | 03 May 2011 5:12 a.m. PST |
How do you make them? I saw some in the Warhammer:Trafalgar book and I thought they'd be great for marking damage in my naval games. They were on tiny little bases that fit on the model's, and showed a water spout, like from a cannon ball falling short. |
The G Dog  | 03 May 2011 5:19 a.m. PST |
Houston's ships did make a pack of cast splash markers for their 1/1000-1/1200 line. I'd based mine on styrene and painted them up. I don't know if these are still available. |
| paulkit | 03 May 2011 5:36 a.m. PST |
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 StoneMtnMinis  | 03 May 2011 6:07 a.m. PST |
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| Caesar | 03 May 2011 7:04 a.m. PST |
There are some here:
link They are basically upside-down golf tees with green stuff sculpting. I think they look pretty good. |
| Dexter Ward | 03 May 2011 7:25 a.m. PST |
I made a bunch from washers with nails stuck to them, then covered in acrylic clear texture gel (same stuff used to model water on the ship bases), painted deep green/blue, and then highlighted with white. |
| TheBeast | 03 May 2011 9:24 a.m. PST |
I've seen plenty of games with simple golf tees in white that looked good, and appropriate for the first moment of splash. However, I'll admit that these, and even more so anything with upright nails, always made me think of a caltrop moment waiting to happen. Doug |
| Shagnasty | 03 May 2011 10:09 a.m. PST |
I made 1/2400 by sculpting epoxy putty on small washers. We enjoy them in our group. For larger ones you could mold epoxy putty around roofing nails and get the same effect. |
| Vosper | 03 May 2011 10:13 a.m. PST |
Litko has some, in various sizes, if you like this style. link |
| deephorse | 03 May 2011 10:48 a.m. PST |
Go with the golf tees. They are soooo cheap. |
| Wilf12358 | 03 May 2011 11:06 a.m. PST |
I've tried whittled golf tees (to shorten them), painted white. Currently trying cotton bud heads fitted onto thumb tacks for a smaller scale splash. Also seen upturned metal screws glued onto washers. Or the bought-in options mentioned above. |
| Texas Jack | 03 May 2011 12:56 p.m. PST |
I go with both the golf tees (as an avowed golf hater, it gives me untold pleasure to cut them), and as of last weekend cotton swab heads on tacks (thanks Dreadnought for the idea!).
Both have the advantage of being cheap, and give you something you can fiddle with for a bit without doing anything too difficult. |
| David Manley | 04 May 2011 1:57 a.m. PST |
I've seen nice ones made from damp tissue paper scuplted into shape (actually very quick) and left to dry. |
| dmebust | 04 May 2011 8:53 a.m. PST |
I made a batch using 3/4" fender washer with some white latex chalk squished ontop in the shape of a cone. Then rough it up a bit to look like a slpash and painted blue leaving some white to accent the effect. Cheap and done in an afternoon. |
| John D Salt | 04 May 2011 3:18 p.m. PST |
An extremely cheap and surprisingly effective method is to make highly-pointed cones out of plain white paper. Cost is next to nil, and to my eye they look at least as good as golf tees. All the best, John. |
| firstvarty1979 | 06 May 2011 9:35 a.m. PST |
…a caltrop moment waiting to happen… I laughed at that! |
| fenyan | 15 May 2011 9:19 p.m. PST |
For my 1/6000 WWI fleet, I'm carving some shapes out of foam packing peanuts and sticking them onto a 1/4" diameter flex steel base: Planning to paint the base blue and store them in a magnetic-lined plastic box for transport. |
| 1968billsfan | 18 May 2011 10:16 a.m. PST |
Go to e-bay. Type in "wool roving". Buy some in natural color (Buy more grey-black roving and combine with vivid orange chenille for microarmor "brew-ups"). Buy some small, heavy washers from a hardware store. Paint them blue. Take a small, teased out piece of roving, tie some blue thread around the base (notions section of a fabric store)and tie in the piece of roving to stand vertical. Maybe clear varnish spray it to stiffen up up. Dilute latix paint to dry-brush if you feel it needs it. cheap and quick and looks great. |
